http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/89824 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:59:39 GMT 2026-04-15T15:59:39Z http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/96507 Rawls and Estrangement : Lessons from Classical German Philosophy and Decision Theory Sensat, Julius Marx develops and discusses two conceptions of estrangement: (1) political estrangement, understood as a dualism between the interests of citizenship and those pursued in civil society, and (2) economic estrangement, understood as a transformation of the individualistic pursuit of interests in civil society into a social process governed by an alien dynamic and characterized by a degrading instrumentalism. A decision-theoretic idea of strategic estrangement articulates in a more general way the self-transformation of independent agency into a ‘second nature’ with an alien dynamic. Relating these ideas to earlier, partly anticipatory discussions of estrangement in the works of Kant and Hegel can bring out their relevance to John Rawls’s conception of justice. This conception, it turns out, is vulnerable to political, economic, and strategic estrangement Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/96507 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/95859 Fundamental Methods of Logic Knachel, Matthew Fundamental Methods of Logic is suitable for a one-semester introduction to logic/critical reasoning course. It covers a variety of topics at an introductory level. Chapter One introduces basic notions, such as arguments and explanations, validity and soundness, deductive and inductive reasoning; it also covers basic analytical techniques, such as distinguishing premises from conclusions and diagramming arguments. Chapter Two discusses informal logical fallacies. Chapters Three and Four concern deductive logic, introducing the basics of Aristotelian and Sentential Logic, respectively. Chapters Five and Six concern inductive logic. Chapter Five deals with analogical and causal reasoning, including a discussion of Mill’s Methods. Chapter Six covers basic probability calculations, Bayesian inference, fundamental statistical concepts and techniques, and common statistical fallacies. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/95859 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z